Honestly, the only reason I started reading the book was because a friend asked me if I can get it for her. Found a copy in my library and as it sat on my desk for a week or so I thought why not try reading it. I understood the content of the book from some synopsis but my impression was that it is a story book which follows a woman from Middle East on her journey, as she explores her sexuality and faces the misogyny of the whole society. Well, it isn't. More of a collection of the author's essays. I guess if you read each chapter as a standalone it works fine. If you read it whole as a book, by chapter 3 it becomes super repetitive. It's the same thing. Women face problems x, y and z in countries a, b and c. Women also face problem x in country d and problem y in country e and problem x again in country f. x% of women and girls in country g faces this issue while y% of women and girls faces this issue in country h. It's the same problem, similar numbers and same statistics in each chapter. I am not saying that each chapter didn't raise a point. They all raise extremely valid point. The problem is that they all do that in exactly the same manner, and there all raise exactly the same point. And thus by the time I finished it, I thought if I had just read chapter 1 and probably 2 and skipped the rest, I wouldn't really have missed anything!